5/26/2023 0 Comments The midwich cuckoo bookWith analogue synthesisers recreating the horror of the ‘Hive Mind’, tape manipulations, drones, woodwind and melodies echoing the song of the cuckoo bird, Peel creates a score that perfectly balances the organic instrumentations and melodies, juxtaposed with an increasingly dark electronic ‘invasion’. Hannah Peel‘s score is described as a unique and intricately produced sound world, working in harmony with the sound design of Sky’s adaptation. The Midwich Cuckoos (Original Score) by Hannah Peel These all lend it that folk horror weight that also comes across in Peel’s score, especially on Cuckoo on which she balances the light and dark beautifully. In the book at least, the folklore elements are there – the utopian English village, fertility symbols such as the triangular green, ornamented by five fine elms (often associated with the underworld), The Grange’s research centre (messing with nature), the sleeping village (enchantment) and the supernatural abilities of the children. It’s not surprising that many align The Midwich Cuckoos more with folk horror than your typical sci-fi drama. Soon after the book’s publication, it was made into a film (Village of the Damned, 1960) and later remade by John Carpenter in 1995. Margaret Atwood called the novel Wyndham’s chef-d’oeuvre.
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